Want to Protect Your Infant From Peanut Allergy? Offer Peanuts
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Want to protect your children from peanut allergies? Start blending peanuts into their food while they’re still infants, well before their first birthdays.
The counterintuitive advice stems from one of the first comprehensive studies of peanut consumption in children. The results, that exposing infants to peanuts reduces the odds of developing an allergy even for those from high-risk families and almost eliminates the danger for those less vulnerable, were published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine.